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Flowers That Look Like Faces, Birds and Tiny Dancers
Once you see a little face in a flower, it can be surprisingly difficult to unsee it. Orchids become dancers, white petals become wings and ...
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Plants: Stories & Places to Explore
Meet the hot-lips plant, now accepted as Palicourea elata, and discover the small flowers inside its bright red bracts and tropical habitat. Meet flowers with wonderfully familiar shapes, learn where resemblance becomes biology and discover a better way to explore a botanical garden.
Start with The Hot-Lips Plant: Those Red “Lips” Are Bracts and Flowers That Look Like Faces, Birds and Tiny Dancers.
Plants in Unexpected Places: The Small Habitats Around Us
A line of green follows the edge of a kerb. Pink flowers fill narrow cracks in paving. A leafy canopy rises from an old vessel’s hull. These...
The Hot-Lips Plant: Those Red “Lips” Are Bracts
Two bright red shapes stand out among green leaves, and the resemblance is immediate: the plant appears to be offering a kiss. Look a little...